Op-eds

Originally Published in The Daily Star. The government is finally considering something that could really stop the question paper leak crisis. The education secretary has reportedly hinted at using tablet computers for taking tests. In this method, a question set will be prepared randomly from a question bank 30 minutes before the test. This is … Read more

Originally Published in The Daily Star. A signboard in front of the Statue of Liberty read: “Government Shutdown.” This was almost poetic, because the bold idea of openness that the lady upholds is at the centre of the whole US federal government shutdown shenanigan. This has happened because the Senate Democrats and Republicans failed to … Read more

Originally Published in The Daily Star. Donald Trump’s first State of the Union speech as president sounded presidential. On Tuesday night, he sounded more like the Republican candidate who took a combative and aggressive stance to win the election in 2016. Like a true Republican, Trump readily invoked patriotism and the American flag repeatedly in … Read more

  Bangladesh Student League members attacked Dhaka University students protesting against violence on women on campus in a similar fashion that the Chattradal (BNP’s student wing) attacked protesting students in 2005. But dissimilar to the 2005-bout, a new rhetoric of apoliticality from the student protesters has emerged. Posting the photos of a BSL activist attacking … Read more

In a country with 328 unreported rape cases in the year of 2016 alone, feminism comes into the popular discourse only through the hot gossip surrounding a beauty pageant contestant. In a country where marital rape is not even recognized as violence, feminism comes into play to debate whether having been married makes one ineligible … Read more

Donald Trump is now the President of United States. Even after months after his election, it still seems unbelievable that Donald Trump really defeated Hillary Clinton. But the political background for this shocking event has been built over a really long time. Hillary Clinton and her President, Barack Obama, lead an administration that was not … Read more